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Nurses Captured and Killed In Vietnam

Profile photo for Lostinspace1205 Lostinspace1205 · Follow Updated Sun Were women captured by North Vietnam? If so, were they mistreated as the men were? (Updated May 2025) Some were not ill-treated. Others, yes. February 1968. 28-year-old Marjorie Nelson was a doctor on the staff of AFSC's Quang Ngai Rehabilitation Center in Vietnam, and Sandra Johnson, a friend at a volunteer agency in Hué, were both captured by a cadre of VC in the same city. She recalls that the VC soldiers took great care to make sure she and Sandra were not harmed. When they arrived at a camp, they were well fed and cared for under the direction of the soldiers' commander. "It sort of occurred to them, I guess, that maybe we . . . shouldn't really be prisoners. We were really more like guests, and they sort of began to be a little embarrassed at this prisoner business.” Near March 20, the two women were instructed to write release statements. Marge wrote, in part, "Almost everyone I met has been both kind and friendly to me. I have been impressed with the courage, dedication, enthusiasm, and cheerfulness of the NLF Forces. There is no doubt in my mind that they represent a significant segment of the Vietnamese people and must be accepted as such." On March 31, 1968-nearly two months after their capture, they were both released north of Hué. (Source: American Friends Service Committee) Dr. Marjorie Nelson (Image of Sandra Johnson not found) Roughly 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the conflict. Nearly all were volunteers, and 90% served as military nurses, though women also worked as physicians, air traffic controllers, intelligence officers, clerks, and other positions in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps, U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marines, and the Army Medical Specialist Corps. In addition to women in the armed forces, an unknown number of civilian women served in Vietnam on behalf of the Red Cross, United Service Organizations (USO), Catholic Relief Services, and other humanitarian organizations, or as foreign correspondents for various news organizations. 59 American women who served as civilians (including nurses) in Vietnam were also killed and died in that war. 4 were POWs. South Korea’s nurses in South Vietnam (below): Nurses from the Tiger Division Field Hospital stand in formation during ceremonies commemorating the third anniversary of the ROK Forces in Vietnam. Image Source: NARA photo 111-CCV-534-CC51541 by SP5 Dennis D. Connell At least 1.5 million women served in the North Vietnamese military during the War and comprised as much as 70% of youth volunteers. Women Viet Cong taken prisoner, January 1973. Image Source: NARA photo 111-CCV-430-CC86471 by SSG Richard Hiwa, Jr. A female and male VC taken prisoner on board a US helicopter. An injured NVA or VC nurse captured by an Anzac team. (Recently added): NEW INFORMATION American, Australian, New Zealand, and British Women who served or died in Vietnam: Charge Sister Pam Miley, a Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps Sister at an orphanage in Vung Tau, Headquarters of the 1st Australian Logistic Support Group, 1971. She survived the war. Lt. Drazba and Lt. Jones were assigned to the 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon. They died in a helicopter crash near Saigon, February 18, 1966. Drazba was from Dunmore, PA, and Jones from Allendale, SC. Both were 22 years old. Lt. Drazba and Lt. Jones Lt. Lane died from shrapnel wounds when the 312th Evac. Chu Lai was hit by rockets on June 8, 1969. From Canton, OH, she was a month short of her 26th birthday. She was posthumously awarded the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm and the Bronze Star for Heroism. Lt. Lane Capt. Alexander of Westwood, NJ, and Lt. Orlowski of Detroit, MI, died November 30, 1967. Alexander, stationed at the 85th Evac., and Orlowski, stationed at the 67th Evac. in Qui Nhon, had been sent to a hospital in Pleiku to help during a push. With them when their plane crashed on the return trip to Qui Nhon were two other nurses, Jerome E. Olmstead of Clintonville, WI, and Kenneth R. Shoemaker, Jr. of Owensboro, KY. Alexander was 27, Orlowski 23. Both were posthumously awarded Bronze Stars. Capt. Alexander and Lt. Orlowski Lt. Jerome Olmstead Lt. Shoemaker Jr. Lt. Shoemaker’s grave Lt. Col. Graham, Chief Nurse, 91st Evacuation Hospital, 43rd Medical Group, 44th Medical Brigade, Tuy Hoa, from Efland, NC, suffered a stroke and was evacuated to Japan, where she died four days later on August 14, 1968. A veteran of both World War II and Korea, she was 52. Lt. Graham Lt. Donovan, from Allston, MA, became seriously ill and died on July 8, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at the age of 26. She was assigned to the 85th Evac. in Qui Nhon. Lt. Donovan Capt. Klinker, a flight nurse with the 10th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, temporarily assigned to Clark Air Base in the Philippines, was on the C-5A Galaxy, which crashed on April 4, 1975, outside Saigon while evacuating Vietnamese orphans. This is known as the Operation Babylift crash. From Lafayette, IN, she was 27. She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal. Capt. Klinker Australian Nurse Corps, Barbara Black died at age 25 at Vung Tau, Vietnam, in 1971. While in Vietnam, she was diagnosed with leukemia, which was untreatable at the time. She is counted as a casualty of the war. Barbara Black American Red Cross: Hannah E. Crews died in a jeep accident, Bien Hoa, October 2, 1969. Hannah Crews A U.S. soldier “sexually assaulted” (source: FOIA) and stabbed Virginia E. Kirsch to death in Cu Chi, August 16, 1970. Her assailant has never been identified. Virginia Kirsch Lucinda J. Richter died of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Cam Ranh Bay, February 9, 1971. Linda Richter with a GI patient somewhere in South Vietnam. Date unknown. Army Special Services: Rosalyn Muskat died in a jeep accident, Long Binh, October 26, 1968. Rosalyn Muskat grave Dorothy Phillips died in a plane crash, Qui Nhon, 1967. Dorothy Phillips U.S. Department of the Navy OICC (Officer in Charge of Construction): Regina "Reggie" Williams died of a heart attack in Saigon, 1964. No image available Catholic Relief Services Gloria Redlin was shot to death in Pleiku, 1969. Redlin was a civilian nurse, volunteering for the Lutheran World Relief Organization in South Vietnam in 1970. Redlin. Little information is written about her death, and her companion, 1st Sergeant Louis Emil Janca, but what is known the pair were returning by moped to a hospital in Kontum City late at night on October 13, 1970. On the way, they tried to run an ARVN roadblock, not knowing if it was friendly. Sergeant Janca was killed, and Gloria Redlin was seriously wounded. She died of her wounds on October 21, 1970. No image available. CIA: Barbara Robbins died when a car bomb exploded outside the American Embassy, Saigon, on March 30, 1965. She was the first female employee to be killed in action in the CIA’s history, the first American woman killed in the Vietnam War, and, as of 2012, the youngest CIA employee to die in action. Undated photo of Barbara Robbins Scene of the 1965 bombing in which Robbins was killed Betty Gebhardt died in Saigon, 1971. Gephart was also killed by a car bomb. Image unavailable. U.S. Foreign Service: Jeanne Roge Skewes and Lydia Ruth James were shot and killed in a Viet Minh ambush on March 7, 1948, when their jeep was ambushed and set afire on the outskirts of Saigon. The Viet Minh later acknowledged the jeep was mistaken for a French patrol vehicle and was fired upon in error, describing the women's deaths as a regretful tragedy. James was a World War II WAC veteran in the South Pacific theater. Photo of Skewes and James USAID: Marilyn L. Allan was an adviser to a US civilian surgical team at a South Vietnamese hospital. August 16, 1967, she was murdered by her boyfriend, an Army Captain who then committed suicide in Nha Trang. Her body was cremated once in the US. No image available. Dr. Breen Ratterman (American Medical Association) died from her injuries suffered in a fall from her apartment balcony in Saigon, October 2, 1969. Doctor Breen Ratterman USAID worker Gail (Gayle) Thomashow Fairless died February 1, 1968, Vinh Long. The cause of death is unknown. The Thomashow family grave. Journalists: Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle killed by a mine on patrol with Marines outside Chu Lai, 1965. Chapelle at work. Image: Lew Lowery/ Wisconsin Historical Images, WHi Image ID 1942 Chaplain John McNamara of Boston makes the sign of the cross as he administers the last rites to photographer Dickey Chapelle in South Vietnam, Nov. 4, 1965. Chapelle was covering a U.S. Marine unit on a combat operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer when she was seriously wounded, along with four Marines, by an exploding mine. She died in a helicopter en route to a hospital. (AP Photo/Henri Huet) Image: AP Photo/Henri Huet On 7 April 1971, journalist for UPI, Kate Webb made news herself when she, a Japanese photojournalist Toshiichi Suzuki and Cambodian journalists Tea Kim Heang, Chhim Sarath, Vorn and Charoon were captured by People's Army of Vietnam troops fighting Khmer National Armed Forces in an operation on Highway 4.On 20 April, official reports claimed that the body discovered was Webb's, and The NYT and other newspapers published obituaries for her. On 1 May, Webb and the others were released by the PAVN near where they had been captured, after having endured forced marches, interrogations, and malaria. Catherine Merrial Webb Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer. She became the first accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump on 23 February 1967 in Vietnam, joining the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Operation Junction City. On 19 May 1967, while photographing a Marine unit near the Vietnamese DMZ, she was severely injured by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) mortar fire. She was evacuated first to Con Thien, then to the USS Sanctuary. She was then transferred to a hospital in Danang and discharged in mid-June. In 1968, during the Tet Offensive, Leroy and Agence France-Presse journalist Francois Mazure were captured by PAVN soldiers during the Battle of Huế. She managed to talk her way out and emerged as the first newsperson to take photographs of PAVN soldiers behind their lines. Catherine Lovejoy preparing for a jump. Entertainer-journalist-missionary Philippa Schuyler died in a helicopter crash into the ocean near Da Nang, May 9, 1967. In 1966, Schuyler traveled to South Vietnam to perform for the troops and Vietnamese groups. She returned in April 1967 as a war correspondent for William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader and served as a lay missionary. In early May, Schuyler planned to leave Vietnam, but extended her stay to bring Catholic children from Hue. On May 9, 1967, she boarded a US Army helicopter on a mission to evacuate Vietnamese orphans from Da Nang. The helicopter crashed into Da Nang Bay. She survived the crash but could not swim and drowned. Entertainer Cathy Wayne, an Australian Singer, was Murdered during a performance in Danang, July 1969. She was killed by a US Marine Sergeant. Wayne had just finished a song at a Non-commissioned officer's club near Da Nang in South Vietnam when she was hit by a bullet fired from a .22 pistol, fitted with a silencer, which had been stolen at the base. Cathy Wayne Missionaries: Rev. Archie Mitchell, Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti, and Daniel Gerber were taken prisoner in 1962 at the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot. on May 30, 1962. Dr. Vetti, who disappeared May 30, 1962, was an American physician and missionary. She worked at a leper colony, where she was taken as a POW. She was America’s first woman POW in Vietnam. She is currently the only American woman unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti Carolyn Griswald, Ruth Thompson, and Ruth Wilting were killed in a raid on the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot during Tet 1968. Ruth Thompson Reports of the killings and kidnappings came from U.S. Army Chaplain Richard Perkins at Ban Me Thuot and from Mrs. Marie Ziemer, whose husband, Robert, was one of those killed. Badly wounded, Mrs. Ziemer telephoned her report to Saigon from Nha Trang, where she was being treated at a U.S. military hospital. Janie A. Makil, 5 months old, was shot in an ambush while in the arms of her missionary father, who was also killed, at Dalat, March 4, 1963. Her twin sister, an older sister, an older brother (who was also wounded), and her mother survived the ambush. Photo of baby Makil with her family right after her birth. POWs: During the Tet Offensive, a bullet shattered the windshield of Betty Olsen’s jeep. Though uninjured, Olsen was seen taken captive by VC commandos. Olsen endured ten months in captivity, with forced day-long marches, beatings, inadequate food, and no medical attention. She died in captivity as a POW of the North Vietnamese Army. Eleanor Ardel Vietti was an American physician and missionary. She worked at the Ban Me Thuot leper colony, where she was taken as a prisoner of war on May 30, 1962. She was America’s first woman POW in Vietnam. She is currently the only American woman unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. She died in 1968 while being held as a prisoner and was buried somewhere along the Ho Chi Minh Trail by fellow POW, Michael Benge. Remains have not been recovered. No images available. Evelyn Anderson and Beatrice Kosin, both missionary nurses, were captured by Pathet Lao or North Vietnamese communists and burned to death in Bang Kengkok, Laos, in 1972. Their remains were recovered and returned to the U.S. Evelyn Anderson (top) and Beatrice Kosin In the late hours of. Saturday, October 27, 1972, a small group of North Vietnamese soldiers invaded the southern Laotian town of Beng Kengkok. They took prisoners, including Evelyn Anderson, Beatrice Kosin, Lloyd Oppel, and Samuel Mattix. Several other Americans there managed to escape and radioed for help. At 9:04 on Sunday morning, following the capture, an American helicopter arrived and evacuated nine Filipinos, five Lao, and the Americans who had radioed for help. Less than an hour later, Sgt. Gerry Wilson returned by helicopter to try and locate the two American women. Lt. Colonel Norman Vaughn immediately set rescue plans into motion. The American Embassy in Vientiane [Laos] heard of the rescue plan and ordered from the highest level that no attempt be made to rescue the women. The peace negotiations were ongoing, and it was feared that a rescue attempt would compromise the sustained level of progress in the talks. On November 2, 1972, a radio message was intercepted from Hanoi that ordered that the two women be executed. A captured North Vietnamese soldier later told U.S. military intelligence that the women were captured, tied back-to-back, and their wrists wired around a house pillar. The women remained in this position for five days. After receiving orders to execute the two, the Communists simply set fire to the house where they were being held and burned them alive. A later search of the smoldering ruins revealed the corpse of Miss Anderson. Her wrist was severed, indicating the struggle she made to free herself. The two men, Oppel and Mattix, who were captured with Anderson and Kosin, were released. It is speculated that the women would have been too much trouble to care for on the long trip to Hanoi, and were killed instead. Beatrice Kosin’s grave Evelyn Anderson’s grave German aid workers: Although not associated with US forces, these names should also be remembered: Monika Schwinn (b.1942) was a West German nurse who worked in South Vietnam together with four other German aid workers as part of a humanitarian aid operation by the Malteser Relief Service and was kidnapped by VC guerrillas. She followed a call from the West German Maltese Relief Service to help the civilian population in South Vietnam and began working as a nurse in a children’s ward in Da Nang in 1968/1969. On April 27, 1969, a Sunday, she was kidnapped by the VC along with Doctor Bernhard Diehl, nurses Marie-Luise Kerber (or Kerben) and Hindrika Kortmann, and paramedic Georg Bartsch on a country trip. Monika Schwinn and Bernhard Diehl – the other prisoners did not survive the hardships – were eventually taken as hostages to the infamous Hanoi Hilton, where they were tortured as political prisoners. On March 7, 1973, following the signing of the Paris Peace Accord, Monika Schwinn and Bernhard Diehl returned to their homeland scarred by their captivity. Monika Schwinn and Doctor Bernhard Diehl, following their release in 1973 Rika Kortmann Kerben(r) was 19 years old when kidnapped. (I couldn't find any specific images of Marie-Luise Kerber, the German nurse captured.) Marie-Luise Kerber, Hindrika Kortmann, and Georg Bartsch died during their captivity. (Similar to Kerben, I couldn’t find any specific images of Georg Bartsch.) REMEMBER THESE VALIANT MEN AND WOMEN ON MEMORIAL DAY EACH YEAR Nurses Memorial at the Vietnam War Memorial Wall, Washington, D.C. 175.9K views View 867 upvotes View 13 shares 1 of 2 answers 55 comments from Richard Ellenberger and more

My Private Thoughts On Memorial Day 2025

Right by my workstation, you will find a framed exhibit lovingly created for me by Elena. In the background is a photo of the granite wall that carries the names of over 58,000 American men and women killed in the Vietnam War. In the foreground, you will find in bold print the names of four of my high school friends who died fighting in Vietnam. By their names, you will find their date of birth and the date they were killed in Vietnam. Here are the names of these four young men and the details as follows: Donald R. Irby 09/04/1949 03/09/1968 Larry Joe White 02/02/1949 06/10/1969 Ronald S. Athanasiou 01/21/1949 01/21/1970 Michael Vincent Wright 12/19/1947 02/26/1968 A few of you have been to our house. You have seen the Purple Heart certificate I earned in the US Navy during the Vietnam War. A few of you know the story of how I got wounded. If a piece of shrapnel had hit two inches lower, my jugular vein would have been severed. I would have bled to death. There would have been one more name on that granite wall. I was and still am a very lucky man. Please take a moment to reflect on what I have said.

China Is Not "Ten-Feet Tall!"

Profile photo for HistorianX HistorianX · Follow Former Scholar in History and PhilosophyUpdated Apr 26 Is China capable of building fighter jets that are as advanced as America's F-22 or F-35 stealth fighters? As someone who has worked with the Chinese and Chinese engineers, my answer is categorical no. Some of the answers given here are just hogwash - Chinese jets are crashing left and right, and Chinese jets have never seen active combat, it's hilarious to even think about calling these jets effective. So the reason why I'm saying China can never catch up, is because even other western nations are having trouble matching the US in its industrial capacities. China is a long way from having the type of corporate governance, engineering discipline and logistic sophistication to pull this off. There are a few reasons: Think Conway's law - a company's product is reflective of its communication structure, and vice versa. It is totally true of American, German and Japanese companies, the Chinese will be no different. If you have worked in a Chinese company as an executive, you'd understand that decisions are made not based on data or facts or analyses, but on politics. And politics are mostly determined by bloodline and conformity. Chinese companies decide what to do based on ruling families’ (and often times the CCP’s) wishes and commands. You can survive with one bad decision but you can't survive a hundred. You can do the math there. In fact, this problem applies not just to Chinese military engineering, but also applies directly to the PLA itself - the whole organization is not run by an elected, informed civilian government, but by the political commissars who overpower civilian and military management, and reports directly to the politburo and the chairman of the CCP. Imagine how often they fuck up there - the answer is, A LOT, and it’s not like the US where people do post-mortem analysis to figure out what went wrong, in China, of the million fuckups that happen each year, every single one is silenced by the politburo directly or indirectly. Component engineering vs. system engineering. These two vastly different, many cultures like the Japanese and the Germans excel at engineering components, but can't do shit when it comes to designing systems. System engineering is almost an exclusively American/Anglo discipline, and is dominated by the English speaking countries. There is a reason for it. That reason is flattened organization and separation of powers. Also, the advance in scientific reasoning and data driven engineering techniques require organizations that are receptive to data and changes. The Chinese I'm sorry to say, are perhaps the least organized and least open culture there is on the planet. Their engineering industries are just utterly horrible. Capital and talent flight. A lot of people who praise China are people who don't understand Chinese culture, history or economy. China is an economy and country lead by people who don't care much about it, the elites have been embezzling money and leaving for US, EU, AUS, UK and Canada for decades. And this trend is continuing. How are you supposed to catch up when your best talent is leaving and your capital is drying up? Labor intensive mentality. This is what drives good talent out of China. Engineers in china work overtime to the point that they die in front of their desks. Engineers in the US are highly specialized and familiar with automation that they work comfortably normal hours and are well respected for their expertise. Stark differences, you can't bridge bad methods and bad organization culture by working longer. Chinese opaqueness. This is something very few non-Chinese would understand. The Chinese do the exact opposite that Americans do - the latter usually advertise the sure things and not mention experimental features; the former is one that pretends experimental features are working. This is why a lot of people get fooled by Chinese prosperity, very few of what you see on the news is remotely accurate. And quite unfortunately, china is a country where people are content with this sort of culture, if books and newspapers say one thing, they'd believe it. Not exactly a culture that can advance in technology meaningfully. The Chinese love touting how many papers and how many patents they have in key technological areas, yeah, if patents and papers amount to technological advancement, then IBM would rule the world. Don't forget that the first papers on stealth and radar cross section reduction were published in the Soviet Union. China is now becoming more closed and more insulated from the rest the world, its best case scenario is to become Russia today in two decades. I doubt the Chinese would even be as self reliant and as effective as the Russians in twenty years. Fraud - I don't think this needs elaboration. China has more fraud than actual substance. Military culture - unlike most “western” (including Middle East and Eastern Europe) militaries, the China has a completely different military culture since antiquity. Military is where the poorest go to get fed. It is a bloated freelancer workforce for the government. Not only does the PLA not seen real modern warfare ever, its last real serious military conflict was with Vietnam where tens of thousands of malnourished, poorly-trained peasants charged at, shot and stabbed each other - wasn’t by any definition a modern war. So what has the PLA been up to? The last largest mobilizations were the lockdown of Wuhan at the beginning of Covid, where they dragged people to medial facilities and rumored to have burnt people alive; The other was the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang region (East Turkistan). I think you can do the math there, a military that is most often used as a riot police force, is not exactly one that can fight at all. Not to mention much of the military budget is squandered on stupid shit like running their own hotels, brothels, karaoke bars, etc for the higher ups and PLA officers - this I had first hand experience witnessing, it was ridiculous. Not to mention that the PLA is perhaps the largest drug-smuggling operation in China. In essence, the PLA functions more like the Russian underworld than like an actual military. Let’s be frank, the Russian and the Italian mafia aren’t built for joint military operations, neither is the PLA. You can’t design good weapons for the context if you have zero experience with the context of modern warfare… What we’ve seen China build so far tells us they can’t engineer anything on their own - I’m adding this part to the answer because some will question my approach at answering this from a more methodological and philosophical point of view. Well here it is, if you look at the J-31, it is a laughable piece of junk from an engineering design point of view. First of all, why does this plane even have a half-covered canopy in which pilot cannot see what’s behind the plane? Well we know why the F-35 does - because of VTOL lift fan for F-35B variant. So why does J-31 have the same? Literally no other 4.5- or 5th gen plane has this. Secondly, despite having similar shapes as F-35, the J-31 has very sharp edges, not to mention the two engine not-very-stealthy engine exhausts. The whole design of J-31 screams “I copied someone’s homework”, and funny enough, they copied someone’s homework from more than two decades ago! Don’t even get me started on that boxy flying coffin known as J-20, or the new carriers they’re rolling out - many of the “design decisions” don’t make sense, because these were designs copied from other planes and ships! From an engineer’s point of view, when you look at a country’s military-industrial complex rolling out shoddy copycat designs like this, it is just painfully obvious that the whole industry cannot think creatively, let alone originally. If they can’t even get a 20-plus-year-old design right today, what makes you think they can engineer a comparable contemporary in 20–30 years? If you want to look back in history, after WWII it only took the Japanese and the Germans around 20 years to rebuild industrial capacity and to catch up to the Americans technologically. Even for countries like South Korea and Taiwan that developed after WWII, the transition out of low-end manufacturing and into some sort of engineering design took around 20 years or so. Not to mention a country like Israel, just astonishing how fast it propelled itself to first-tier defense engineering. China had access to way more modern tech and opportunities to leapfrog everybody than all these countries in the past, but after 30 years, with the largest pool of hot money in the world slushing around, and this is all that China had to show to the world? It points to a severe cultural problem, and it’s something that a country cannot get itself out of, unfortunately. The truth is that China's engineering capabilities lag behind South Korea and Taiwan. And my experience is that these two countries’ engineering industries are already quite behind compared to the US. With China's economy in the shitters and an idiot at the helm calling call the shots, catch up? How? Russian engineering is sloppy but practical. Indian engineering is still developing but they have way better corporate governance than China. There's no point wasting time worrying about China catching up, the only thing China had going for itself is its size. If it had the population of Japan or Brazil, China would be completely irrelevant today. This goes back to what I was saying about systems engineering - just because you copied someone’s design of the system, doesn’t mean you can copy all the knowledge that the hundreds if not thousands of relationships between components. One little change and the system could fail, that’s what makes systems design hard. You can copy the design but you can’t copy the team, the organization and the culture that produced the design. China repeatedly talks about having the most advanced designs of something despite NEVER designing anything like it in the past and never actually employed these weapons in combat - yeah this is like drafting someone who has the build of Jordan or LeBron but never actually played basketball. Seriously? Why are we falling for this? 373.2K views View 2,198 upvotes View 50 shares

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Profile photo for Defence Warriors Defence Warriors · Follow Guiding You About Defence and Security at Indian ArmyDec 12 What is the least known World War One fact? It was the Russians who first solved the problem of trench warfare. Trench warfare created quite a lot of stress for commanders on both sides of the war. Generals who were used to launching offensives on massive, green plains found it difficult to smash through rows of entrenched barbed wire and machine guns. Hundreds of thousands of men died because their leaders were using 19th century tactics in a 20th century war. It was only in 1916 that the problem of trench warfare was “fixed” when Alexei Brusilov, general of the Russian army was given the task of breaking through the Austrian lines to help ease up the French and British advance at the battle of the Somme. The Austrians had quite rapidly built a long strip of trench where they were waiting for the Russian attack. Not only was the trench long, but it was defended by machine guns, barbed wire and over a million men. Brusilov had studied the French and British tactics to deal with German trenches and quickly realised they were too heavily concentrated on trying to ‘punch a hole’ at a particular spot in the German lines, which allowed the enemy to know exactly where to send reinforcements and supplies to massacre waves upon waves of enemy troops. Learning from the British and French costly failures, Brusilov decided to do the exact opposite. Instead of attacking one spot over and over again, he would launch a offensive attacking everywhere so that the Austrians wouldn't know where to send reinforcements, then he would use small groups of elite soldiers to attack weak points in the Austro-Hungarian trench lines and blow open holes for the rest of the army to advance into. Of course, Brusilov needed millions of soldiers to make this attack successful, which he was given. On 4 June 1916, the Russians opened the offensive with an accurate but brief artillery barrage against the Austro-Hungarian lines before sending over nearly 573,000 soldiers attacking all across the Austrian front line. The attack worked so well that only 4 days after the official offensive had started, the Austrians were in full retreat and the Russians had taken over 200,000 prisoners within the first couple of days. However, because Brusilov had commanded his troops to be all over the front and not in one certain area, supply lines became severely over extended to the point that the offensive was put on a halt. But by then Brusilov had accomplished every single goal his offensive was meant to muster, German soldiers were moved from the Somme and sent to the eastern front leaving fewer soldiers to deal with for the Western allies, the Austro-Hungarian army was crippled and had to rely on Germany for the rest of the war and Romania joined the war on the side of the allies. Brusilov’s tactics were copied by both Allied and central power commanders who quickly realised how extremely efficient they were in comparison to human wave tactics. The Brusilov style of offensive were especially used by the Germans who utilised stormtroopers to create holes in the enemy lines, and later again in WWII when Brusilov breakthrough tactics were used in Blitzkrieg offensives across Europe. After the war Brusilov, in spite of his conservative background, joined the Red army in the Russian civil war - training Soviet soldiers to become cavalry men, a step down from being the commander of the army. He died in Moscow in 1926 from congestive heart failure. His body rests in the Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery where it has not been disturbed. Photo: a coloured picture of Brusilov. 150.6K views View 2,112 upvotes View 32 shares

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